Volume 1

An enlarged syllabus of philosophical lectures, / delivered by Hugh Smith, ... With the principles on which his conjectures are founded concerning animal life, and the laws of the animal oeconomy. These principles are applied not only to the general doctrine of the glands, but likewise to some new thoughts on the nervous system, the gout, and paralytic complaints.

Hugh Smith

Date:: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]

Credit: An enlarged syllabus of philosophical lectures, / delivered by Hugh Smith, ... With the principles on which his conjectures are founded concerning animal life, and the laws of the animal oeconomy. These principles are applied not only to the general doctrine of the glands, but likewise to some new thoughts on the nervous system, the gout, and paralytic complaints. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$?■ C 3° ] XXIV. External heat being removed from a fluid, although the preflure of the cold atrnofphere be freely admitted; it is, neverthelefs, a confiderable time before the air, rarefied by heat, returns to a ftate of refl. 'The truth of this principle may be illuflrated by a fpoon, in the manner before mentioned; (Principle XIV.) and it is worthy- attention. ' J t i ' t t V XXV. Earthy particles may be fufpended in a tranfparent fluid, The procefs for making magnefia alba proves this—it is no contemptible experiment^ though in familiar practice. \ Two tranfparent liquors being mixed, they inflantly lofe both their tranfparency and fluidity, and become one intire white in- fpiffated fubflance—this being repeatedly wafloed with water, the white earth, when dried, is the common magnefia alba of the JJoops. . . ‘ y ' *• 4 It is well known this white earth was originally fufpended in an aqueous menflruum, by means of the vitriolic acid; and in this procefs, it is precipitated by the flxed alkaline. Earthy$

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